Lingyan Shi is an associate professor in the Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering in Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego). Shi is most known for her work on optical techniques in neuroscience, aging, and cancer studies, including the discovery of the Golden Optical Window (wavelength range: 1550nm—1870nm) for deep brain imaging, development of A-POD & PRM enhanced multiplex DO-SRS imaging platforms for imaging metabolic activities in situ. Shi is the recipient of the 2024 Davos Summit iCANX Young Scientist Award, 2024 BMES-CMBE Rising Star Young Faculty Award, 2023 Sloan Research Fellow Award by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (in Chemistry), Scialog Fellow Award by CZI, the 2021 Rising Star Award from both Nature Light Science & Applications and Laser Focus World, and the 2018 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists; she has also been featured in the 2025 Women in Optics notebook. In 2025, she was inducted to the National Academy of Inventors. Source: Wikipedia (en)